Satchel Paige and Company

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Satchel Paige and Company is written by Leslie A. Heaphy and published by McFarland. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0786430753 (ISBN 10) and 9780786430758 (ISBN 13).

Though Satchel Paige lived into the early 1980s, much of our information about his life and especially his career is the stuff of anecdote. He is nevertheless a central figure--arguably the central figure--in our reconstructions of Negro Leagues history. This collection of papers from the 9th Annual Jerry Malloy Negro League Conference focuses on the celebrity of Satchel Paige and the team he is most closely associated with, the Kansas City Monarchs. Accounts of Paige's exploits are scrutinized and the effects of his fame, on both the contemporary perception of black baseball and its depiction in the years since, are discussed.